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Hausner pleaded ‘not guilty at all,’ to felony menacing, stalking and harassment at Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming it was indeed Mr Cooper who had begun their ‘mutual crush’ when he told him ‘you’re hot’ at their first meeting.

‘I have a crush on Anderson, he is not in any danger,’ Hausner, a former psychiatric patient, told police upon his arrest last month.

According to Hausner, Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Ben Maisani, pictured together last year, is trumping up the charges out of jealousy

Deranged: Hausner claims Mr Cooper has been sending him subliminal messages through his television show

This is in sharp contrast to the report of Hausner’s most recent stalker attack on the journalist where he kicked down Anderson Cooper’s front door and threatened to ‘f*** him up’.

Hausner has also been caught on CCTV threatening Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend Benjamin Maisani.

‘He wants me out of the way and he’s trumping up charges,’ he told the court today.

Hausner also made threatening phone calls to CNN, Anderson Cooper’s place of work.

‘He stated to the head of security there that “if you want a war, war is about to come, the worst is about to come”,’ Prosecutor Rachel Ehrhardt said, according to the New York Post.

A judge ordered a psychiatric examination and remanded Hausner who is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail.